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Nov 2023 · 211
Be Free!
Thurston Nov 2023
Focus
sharp-eyed eagle.
Broaden your perceptions;
let these visions come alive soon.
Be free.
Nov 2023 · 235
Just us
Thurston Nov 2023
Just us,
above it all.
The crazy things we do.
Your absolute fidelity.
Bless you.
Jul 2023 · 471
Voyage No.3
Thurston Jul 2023
Reckless...
On life's voyage.
To eclipse cares and fears;
living tight to the gut's instinct.
Danger.
Jun 2023 · 436
Veneers.
Thurston Jun 2023
Veneers..
How lives appear
but look inside the box.
A raw core of humanity,
swirling.
Apr 2023 · 318
Taxi!
Thurston Apr 2023
Taxi!
Smiled, side saddled.
Politely agreed fare.
I stepped away from the spectrum;
you've gone.
Mar 2023 · 237
1976
Thurston Mar 2023
Lollies,
for everyone!
Frozen juice, crunching ice.
Hot Summer of Seventy Six
Ace time.
Mar 2023 · 222
Lee and Wilko
Thurston Mar 2023
White suit;
snarling, sweating....
Smoking, playing blues harp.
The fever of that tommy gun.
Pub rock.
Jul 2022 · 118
Shoah Poem
Thurston Jul 2022
To dream aboard a clipper ship on seas;
To dream of our lost lives upon green bay;
Of a New York skyline beyond cool breeze;
Of ascending towers of steel display.
Beyond these doors, we rise with express speed,
In florescent light to its lofty crown.
Our love is carved  within art deco frieze;
Of our hearts rejoiced over city’s clouds.








On trains, viewed as undesirables, sway;
On platforms, gathered in our silence, wait;
To brittle lines, led beneath clouds of grey;
To a fate, bleaker than these entrance gates.
‘Oh sisters, brothers, all of mercy’s prayers;
May our hands hold us now, for marked are we;
To shamble alone into chambers where
Our mortal love dies and our spirits flee.’









Their bodies now gone, so no one can see.
Their trembling souls shone of infinite light.
A truth has spoken with certain decree
For those who were lost in man's darkest night.
Their sorrow's alive and remains with you;
Their pain is eternal, bound and not free.
Til’ banished the views of misguided truths;
There'll never be silence, never be peace.
holocaust
Apr 2021 · 90
Soul of a Whale
Thurston Apr 2021
Awakened. In-between a dream
and the cool, blue breeze;
A breeze that rushes through these pleats;
Enlivening the senses.
Truly alive through the blues
of every shade and hue;
No matter how wild these waves become.

The great pleasure of movement;
All life supported by Ocean.
Delighting the senses of the mind.
Rushing from dark depths to sparkled skies;
Engulfing, enormous mouthfuls
of seawater, the taste like a humans tear.

Across thousands of miles, she glides
with the certainty of distance
and satisfaction of her sounds.
A beauty far from a concept
yet a reality born by the stars.
It is in everyone of us,
everyone who dares to dream.

The embodiment of character
and her spiritual nature
lies above all features and traits.
Like every man, woman and child,
freedom is all and everything.
Unique, yet not solitary,
for she has a calf in tow

Man may never infiltrate
the unfathomable soul of a whale.
Given to her, the greatest gift
that nature bestowed on any mammal.
This truth is unknown except
by a divine revelation.
Nature and spirituality

— The End —